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Ok, so I got myself a new workstation computer, it's been nearly 4 years since I last did a full upgrade of my workstation, and for once now, I'm taking a different direction. I've bought a Quad-core Apple G5, thanks to a nice discount for Linux developers from IBM, and it's running Gentoo quite happily (after a little bit of kernel hacking). It's a little RAM-short still, as that was expensive from Apple, so I just need to add more myself.

Sunday thru Friday, I'll be going to be in Santa Clara, California for the MySQL Users Conference. I'll be manning the phpMyAdmin booth. I'm hoping my couch surfing works out.

Immediate todo list:

• Finish my taxes.
• Do banners for phpMyAdmin.
• Get USD for trip.
• Find passport.
• Pack.

Purchase todo list:

• 4x1GB PC2-4200 non-ECC unbuffered 240pin DDR2 RAM (2x2GB is not cost effective yet).
• spot-based infrared thermometer with a spread better than 6:1 distance to spot ratio - point based would be even better. Max budget $100CDN or find a contributor. I need it for developing some of the sensor drivers.

Workstation development todo list:

• Work more on the sensor stuff (does anybody have the service book for the quad core G5? I've got a few questions) - need to write a driver for the ds1631 and gpu sensor still, and figure out where the one max6690 chip is actually located.
• Contribute to the snd-aoa sound driver.
• Contribute to the bcm43xx wireless driver.
• Contribute to the EXA support for the nv driver.

Given several .dll/.sys files, and their respective .pdb/.dbg files, is there any way to get a reasonable assembly dump with symbols and function blocks of said files, in Linux?

objdump doesn't read .dbg/.pdb files :-(.

The compiler used was "Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8799.0" - gleaned by running strings on the .pdb.

I see that IDA Pro can do it, but I don't have access to IDA, hence I'm looking for a Linux route.
Failing that, does somebody have the internal file format for the .pdb debug files?
(Not to be confused with .pdb palm databases or .pdb protein databases).

Edit: Wine was suggested, and winedbg in particular, but it crashes and burns quite specactullarly on the .sys, and won't even open the .dll - secondly it doesn't even open the .pdb files :-(. Also winedump doesn't handle .pdb debug data it seems.

I'm selling a Sun StorEdge A5000 FibreChannel disk array.
- 22x 9.1Gb 10000RPM Seagate Cheetah drives, hot-swappable
- Redudant power suppliess (3 total, needs at least 2 to run all 22 drives)
- Capable of 200Mbyte/sec full-duplex transfer (100Mbyte/sec up/down).
- 2x FibreChannel ports (upgradable to 4 ports, you just need to buy two more GBICs $75/each).
- In rack-mounting sled. Sorry, I don't have the table-top plastic fittings for it.

Weight is 60kg (130lbs) - For ease of moving it, you can remove the modules (22 drives, 3 power supplies, 2 fan units) and move all of those and the chassis seperately.
Electrical - Draws 6.6A @ 110V.
Documentation - http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Network_Storage_Solutions/Midrange/A5100_A5200/index.html

So you can use it, I'll also throw in
- Qlogic QLA2100F FibreChannel controller, 64-bit/66Mhz PCI, but works in regular 32-bit/33Mhz PCI slots (at half speed).
- 10ft single-mode fibre optic cable - you could go 0.5km with single-mode cable if you bought a longer cable, or up to 10km if you buy a multi-mode GBIC and that much fibre.

I'd like $550 Canadian for it, and you'll have to come and pick it up (Vancouver, around 35th and Fraser).
Present eBay pricing for this package is $740+($90 shipping)+($200 for QLA2100F controller) = $1030.

If $550 is too much, make me an offer.

I was originally asking $800 for this, but one of the drives is on it's last legs, and it will cost you $50-$100 to get a replacement on ebay, and I'm eagar to have my desk space back.

Judging by recent blog traffic in general, it seems these are coming back into fashion.

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[Edit 2006/Sept/23: Price dropped to $300 or make me an offer!]

I'm selling a Sun StorEdge A5000 FibreChannel disk array.

• 22x 9.1Gb 10000RPM Seagate Cheetah drives, hot-swappable
• Redudant power suppliess (3 total, needs at least 2 to run all 22 drives)
• Capable of 200Mbyte/sec full-duplex transfer (100Mbyte/sec up/down).
• 2x FibreChannel ports (upgradable to 4 ports, you just need to buy two more GBICs).
• In rack-mounting sled. Sorry, I don't have the table-top plastic fittings for it.

Weight is 60kg (130lbs) - For ease of moving it, you can remove the modules (22 drives, 3 power supplies, 2 fan units) and move all of those and the chassis seperately.
Electrical - Draws 6.6A @ 110V.
Sun Documentation

So you can use it, I'll also throw in

• Qlogic QLA2100F FibreChannel controller, 64-bit/66Mhz PCI, but works in regular 32-bit/33Mhz PCI slots (at half speed).
• 10ft single-mode fibre optic cable - you could go 0.5km with single-mode cable if you bought a longer cable, or up to 10km if you buy a multi-mode GBIC and that much fibre.

I'd like $800 Canadian for it, and you'll have to come and pick it up (Vancouver, around 35th and Fraser).
Present eBay pricing for this is $740+($90 shipping)+($200 for QLA2100F controller) = $1030.

If $800 is too much, make me an offer.

The unit will be available as of March 16th (I'm using it for a project right now, but after that it needs to go).

X-posted to my journal, vanbuysell, van_electronics.

(This post is not blocked in any way, so Marissa can see it without logging into LiveJournal, however all comments are screened).
Marissa, would you please send me the phone number for your hotel, and what room number you are in.
Additionally, find out if the hotel charges you for recieving calls.
If they don't charge you to recieve calls, I'll call you.
I've seen some good deals on calling cards here - $5 for 100 minutes to Mexico.

OpenLDAP-2.3 is coming to the tree soon, but hardmasked for at least a week while the migration of 2.2.28-r3 to stable takes place. The upgrade may be a little bumpy again, like the 2.1->2.2 upgrade, but I'm working to minimize that.

I'm hoping to have significently more time to devote to Gentoo starting in the new year, as my new job might involve a lot of it. Yes, I'm getting a new job again. More details to come soon.

I enjoy eating spicy food. The full gamut of spicy - from mexican to thai, and all the way in between.
Since I've moved away from my parents, I've been doing 90% of the food preparation (of the remaining 10% it's been more going out than Marissa cooking). That in itself however is not my problem, it's just that the real problem is more noticable because of how often I cook.

At least once a week, I try to cook something with a kick to it. However whenever I've been on my own, cooking spicy stuff for one has turned out to be on the edge of too spicy. On this front, I've got 3 things of leftover spicy food in the freezer - chilli-cilantro beef; lamb tandori; and tonight's thai green curry (beef).

Cooking for one has also been challenging, in that it's significently easier to get the quanties right with larger groups - to cook for one, you need smaller quantities of everything, and it just doesn't work right. Can anybody suggest tricks or tips on this?

Regardless of how many I'm cooking for, I find it takes 1-2 hours to prepare and eat most meals. How do resturants manage to get their prep time down so much (besides having the vegetables ready to throw in).

Hints? Tips? Recipies with quantities for a single person?

Anybody looking for me this evening, I'm off at my company chrismas dinner - We're going to Joe Forte's.

Ok, so day 2 of my new job.
I finished the AMD64 install on the Laptop, figured how to boot the Ubuntu LiveCD into a non-framebuffer command prompt (add "vga=0 debug -b 3" to the kernel parameters in grub). Spent some time configuring the laptop to my liking.

Had a dolphin-friend tuna salad sandwich for lunch, and got one of the end pieces of a freshly baked banana-bread loaf for desert. Bought a whole banana-bread loaf. Helped Ryan get a netboot rig going, enabling him to doing the flashing for his embedded systems much quicker.

Spent most of the afternoon preparing a pair of wireless units (Airaya GRIDs). The two pieces of documentation that were with them turned out to be almost totally unrelated, so it stymed me why they weren't working at first. Also, take care not to walk in front of the antenna, as 5580Mhz @ 21dBm, as you will get a headache very quickly.